Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This statue is in the center of San Jacinto Plaza, commemorating the live alligator pond that once stood in the area.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

The man who wasn't there.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

A tribute to a great Texas blues musician.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.